The Crossing of Fortune and Prayer Jubilee

On the second day, after breakfast with Lou Yuzhu, Zhou Cheng summoned a few servants to rush to Lou Yuzhu and said, "Fucheng is no different than Huya Town. There are many places to employ people. These few people are working with you for a while. Just tell them anything."

Lou Yuzhu looked around.A fifteen or sixteen-year-old nugeer, an elderly slave, a coachman and a messenger boy, four plus Huang Ying, he needs to keep up with five people when he travels!Lou Yuzhu couldn't help helping her forehead, but she still didn't refuse after thinking about it. "Brother Zhou is thoughtful, and I would like to thank you."

"Since I brought you here, I should take good care of you. You don't need to think about it." Fucheng is not like Huya Town, with a complex population and a lot of people coming and going. If there is a yellow shadow with evil intentions, it will not be able to protect people. "Brother Yu needs to remember to keep people around at all times, don't send all of them out on errands, and you have to be more vigilant yourself."

Lou Yuzhu smiled and nodded yes, and then asked the coachman to drive the carriage to Li Shang's mahjong leisure hall.

Li Shang's leisure hall was not opened in the busiest Shunyan North Street, but in the opposite South Street. North Street was recognized as the busiest street in Nanyang City, but South Street was a little less because it was newly built.However, Lou Yuzhu noticed something different. South Street was more grand than North Street in terms of planning and traffic on both sides, and the specifications of shops on both sides of the street were also more expensive than North Street.

Li Shang was instructing people to hang plaques in front of the shop. Hearing the sound of the carriage, he turned around and wondered who it was. He only saw Lou Yuzhu's small face, and immediately greeted him happily. "Brother Yu, you are here! If you don't come again, I will send someone to invite you!"

Lou Yuzhu supported Huang Ying's hand and landed on the foot set by the coachman, and couldn't help laughing when she heard Li Shang's words. "Second Brother Li said that, and I panicked when I heard that."

"What's the fuss? You are one of the initiators of Mahjong, and you also came up with the idea of ​​the leisure hall. If you don't come to me, I won't dare to open this Mahjong leisure hall!"

When Sun Jin, who was out looking for someone, heard this, he raised his voice and laughed and said, "Brother Yu, don't listen to your second brother Li's nonsense, it is true that he asked you to control the situation!"

Being exposed, Li Shang choked out of embarrassment, "Sun San! Brother Yu came up with the idea of ​​your ice cellar, why don't you hurry up and give us the fee for the idea? Why do you still want to renege on your debt?"

Sun Jin was speechless.

Look at the lively Liu Qi and Zhao You covering their mouths and grinning sullenly.

Lou Yuzhu also smiled.

Sun Jin patted his head and came up to Lou Yuzhu and said, "Did Zhou Cheng tell you about the dividend instead of the idea fee?"

"Say it. Brother Sun San is too polite. In fact, it was my whim and thought that it was not worth it. There is no need to pay any dividends." It has always been profitable to sell ice to make a living, but the initial investment is also astronomical. It's just a drawing and some assumptions. Naturally, empty words and the huge amount of money they invested are incomparable.

Before Sun Jin came back, Liu Qi made fun of it and said, "If you want to say that, when will Brother Yu give you Fourth Brother Liu and me and Fifth Brother Zhao on a whim? You don't need to be like your Third Brother Sun." The vote is tens of thousands of taels, and the one with a half discount of 5000 taels will do it!"

Lou Yuzhu was so choked that she had nothing to say, her appearance made Sun Jin and Li Shangyi laugh out loud.

On that side, Li Yue beat his horse and got off the horse with a sharp kick, and handed over the whip and rope to the servant who came up.

Li Shang grinned and shouted: "Brother."

Sun Jinyi and others also bowed their hands one after another: "Brother Li."

Li Yue nodded, and after scanning the circle, his eyes fixed on Lou Yuzhu: "This is Brother Yu?"

As the eldest son of the magistrate, Li Yue lived up to his status as a powerful man, not to mention his appearance and posture. He was a 15-year-old Juren, and he received an errand in the government office in the second year. Now, three years later, he behaved more calmly. Calm down.Thinking about Pei Guanying's evaluation of Li Yue, Lou Yuzhu bowed her knees and said, "I have met Mr. Li."

"If you don't dislike it, just call me Brother Li like them."

Lou Yuzhu nodded yes.

Once they went inside, Li Shang led the group to visit the leisure hall, and then they couldn't wait to ask the servants to prepare the best private room and put mahjong on the table.

Lou Yuzhu couldn't help but smile.

"Brother Yu, don't laugh, it's not me who wants to fight this time, it's my elder brother who wants to fight." Li Shang said to Li Yue: "Didn't elder brother want to know what a mahjong master is? I will see it today." After finishing speaking, he rushed to Yuzhu She winked and winked, trying to tell him not to show mercy.

Lou Yuzhu blinked her eyes: "Why don't we send money?"

Li Shang was about to ask Liu Qi to sit in Lou Yuzhu to attack, and Zhao You took the initiative. Hearing this, he said angrily, "What are you going to do if you don't pay money? Mosquitoes?"

Li Yue glanced at his younger brother, saw that Li Shang had shut his mouth, and then smiled at Lou Yuzhu: "Brother Yu, you don't need to be polite, you can play as you like, so that I can see what it means to be a mahjong master."

"Since Big Brother Li said so, it would be hypocritical for me to evade it. Hit him as Big Brother Li says."

Li Yue nodded, and said to Li Shangsun Jin with a smile: "You two keep an eye on brother Yu's cards, if he wants to release water, we will punish him and pay him ten!"

"This is good!" Hearing this, Li Shang immediately moved a stool and sat behind Lou Yuzhu with great enthusiasm, putting on a staring look.

Lou Yuzhu held her forehead speechlessly.

After the rules were agreed, the four of them began to shuffle the cards. In the past, Lou Yuzhu had no choice but to give up the idea of ​​making cards to fully display his identity as a mahjong master, winning thousands of taels in a single game!All of you here are young masters, and the money is not bad, so even though there are thousands of taels of winnings and losses in a game of cards, none of them show any bad intentions.

After seeing it, Lou Yuzhu didn't bother to say anything about refunding the money, but beckoned Huang Ying to go to Xinyilou to order a table of new dishes that hadn't started to be listed, and she had the right to return the gift.

After dinner, Li Yue went back to the yamen to do business, Li Shang was busy with the opening of the leisure hall, Sun Jin was going to work on the ice cellar, Liu Qi and Zhao You went to visit friends, and Lou Yuzhu went back to the house.Within two days, the mahjong leisure center opened, and Lou Yuzhu took the title as a mahjong master. There is often only one ending for those unyielding challenges, that is, defeat.Once the number of times is too many, no one will dare to challenge the title of master once it is settled.

Lou Yuzhu also enjoyed leisure, drinking tea, eating delicious food, reading books every day, and waiting quietly for Pei Guanying to return.Ten days later, Pei Guanying's carriage finally drove into Nanyang City.

Zhou Cheng and Lou Yuzhu, who had heard the news earlier, were waiting at the door, and greeted the carriage as soon as it stopped.

Pei Guanying got out of the carriage, and then helped out a refined middle-aged man in a white gown. "This is my mentor, Mr. Mu." Mr. Mu is a great Confucian in the world, and he studied under the old man of the previous dynasty. Strictly speaking, he is a brother of the same school as the current emperor. Not to mention that I have sent many talents from all walks of life, not to mention my status in the literary world is also one of the best.Pei Guanying was about to introduce to both parties, but Mr. Mu guessed it. "This is the brother Yu you have been talking about all the time, right?" Smiling, he looked at Lou Yuzhu, stroked the beautiful beard under his chin, and said, "He is quite handsome."

Lou Yuzhu bent her knees: "I met Mr. Mu."

Elder Mu nodded and asked, "Let me ask you, did you come up with that mahjong?"

"What if I came up with it? So what if I didn't come up with it?" Lou Yuzhu pursed her lips and smiled, her eyes didn't flicker and continued: "As long as it can entertain others and add fun to life, whoever thought it up will be fine." Is it important?"

"Then do you know that mahjong is gambling, and it can cost you life and money, or even ruin your family. You, a little brother, can bear the crimes of this?"

Mr. Mu has taught books all his life, and his face still looks like that, but Lou Yuzhu deliberately read his masterpiece before, and he really didn't realize that the other party is a stubborn and rigid person.So instead of being afraid, he smiled and said: "Mahjong itself is not at fault, it is the player who is playing mahjong. You need to know that a brand depends on character. If you don't even have the willpower to resist this little temptation in your life, what's the point?" What about accomplishing great things? Self-cultivation, ordering the family, governing the country, and pacifying the world. If you can’t cultivate your own character and concentration, how can you talk about learning and keep talking about the way of being an official?"

Old Mu couldn't help but smile and said: "You little brother is so cunning, obviously I asked you and you didn't answer, but you asked me instead."

Lou Yuzhu covered her mouth and laughed.

The group laughed and entered the inner room. Pei Guanying sent Mr. Mu back to his room to rest first, then turned around and rushed to the building Yuzhu said: "Brother Yu, you are so courageous, you can still talk and laugh at today's great scholars as usual. The funny thing is that those in Shangjing who think they are Talented students often stutter when they see my mentor!"

Lou Yuzhu smiled: "That's because I'm too respectful and too nervous, and I'm a little brother who doesn't study and take exams and doesn't pay attention to learning, so why be nervous? Besides, Mr. Mu is generous and informal, even if I said something wrong If you don’t, you won’t care about me.”

"You said it lightly, that's because you didn't see your mentor scolding people." Pei Guanying shook her head and stopped talking, beckoning Hu Er to fetch the package, took out an envelope from it and handed it to Lou Yuzhu.

Lou Yuzhu didn't know, so she took it, and opened it to see that there were one thousand and two hundred taels of silver notes inside. "This is?"

"I sold the blueprint of your shock absorber to a friend of mine in Shangjing. This is only the initial income, and you should be able to receive dividends for about a year later."

Lou Yuzhu was dumbfounded: "Since the second brother took the drawings and used them for himself, why talk about dividends?"

"What should be given must be given. This is a matter of principle. Besides, I have other reasons for this matter, so there is no need for brother Yu to be polite." Pei Guanying's words cannot be refuted, and Lou Yuzhu can only agree Yes, and then he took out another letter and handed it over: "This is a letter home from Wei Gan. Because ordinary soldiers can't write home letters at will, so I sent it to Shangjing with my cousin's letter. This time I will help you when I return to Shangjing." Bring it back."

There was no news from Wei Ganyi for half a year, so it was a surprise to receive a letter from his family!Just thinking about the fact that ordinary soldiers can't read family letters at will, I can't help but feel a little worried: "Will it not cause trouble for that cousin of the second brother?"

"No." Pei Guanying recalled the letter from his cousin, and said with a smile: "My cousin also thanked me for finding a strong general for him. When Wei Gan entered the camp, a border war broke out, and then he made a mistake. Qigong, and because of his hard training and outstanding performance, he is now promoted to be the team leader."

Ten people make up a small team, and being promoted to captain as a recruit shows that Wei Gan is outstanding.

"For my Uncle Lan's family, whether my cousin can perform meritorious service is secondary, and the main thing is personal safety."

Next to him, Zhou Cheng interjected: "When a person goes to the battlefield, he just lives with his head in his hands. How can he be safe or not?"